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JMBM attorneys bring experience, expertise and business insight to sophisticated consumers of legal services. Our attorneys are recognized leaders in their areas of expertise, and are frequently called upon to teach, speak, write and comment on current legal and industry issues.

For more than 30 years, Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) has provided clients with results-successfully resolving cases, closing deals, protecting assets, and adding value. Many of the Firm's founding members continue to practice law at JMBM, which is now ranked in the American Lawyer's AmLaw 200 list and recognized by numerous industry, peer and media groups. From our offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Orange County, we serve our clients' needs worldwide.

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Health Care

Professional experience and practical insight get results

JMBM Health Care Professionals and Institutions Group

JMBM understands the nuances of the highly regulated and constantly changing health care industry. Our multi-disciplinary team of lawyers represents a wide range of health care providers and provider organizations, as well as related companies that focus on health and medical technologies, and business services.

In representing you as a health care client, we combine detailed health care knowledge with practical experience. Our team members bring their extensive corporate, labor, litigation, intellectual property and real estate skills to bear on complex health care needs.

We know the unique relationships that exist among providers, patients, payers and regulators. With this invaluable background, our lawyers respond quickly to the critical needs of:

We take the health care provider’s perspective on legal and business issues, an efficient approach that means you receive customized counsel that you can trust.

Transactional Counsel

Our familiarity with the widely varying business models and competitive concerns of single hospitals, multi-hospital systems, physician and other professional practices, surgery centers, imaging centers, long-term care providers and others enables us to handle all the documentation and structuring of an acquisition, merger or divestiture. That includes the often-complex regulatory approvals, governance issues and financing concerns that can arise when the deal involves for-profit and not-for profit entities, or strictly licensed providers. For example, JMBM was outside counsel for the successful reorganization of the then-largest publicly owned HMO, with outstanding debts of over $3 billion dollars.

Because joint venture affiliations between provider organizations and physicians are, in effect, a “virtual merger,” you will benefit from our ability to ensure that you comply with all antitrust requirements and related fraud and abuse enforcement and regulation. That includes counseling on federal scrutiny to guard against price-fixing and tying arrangements, and group purchasing organizations.

Corporate Services

We routinely advise health care clients about the kind of legal structure most likely to satisfy their business and other needs (from professional corporations to partnerships, in states from California to Delaware, as well as in foreign countries), and make sure it is structured to avoid the prohibitions against self-referrals and kickbacks. Our lawyers also help clients structure innovative affiliations and joint ventures, such as a risk-sharing arrangement between a hospital and IPA that involves joint global capitation for managed-care patients.

Health care organizations seek our advice on issues that involve inurement (for tax exempt organizations) and self-referral statutes, reimbursement, fraud and abuse, and privacy requirements. Because practice agreements between hospitals and physicians or physician groups are highly complex, we will help you document all the necessary operational considerations (utilization review programs, quality assurance plans and credentialing criteria) and ensure that tax, reimbursement, financing, and information system matters are properly addressed and integrated.

Labor

JMBM lawyers effectively represent many health care clients, including professional practice groups, large managed care organizations and hospitals in collective bargaining and other labor and employment concerns. Our firm identifies problems that lead to employment lawsuits and works effectively to prevent or resolve controversies in the most effective way possible.

Health care providers have labor and employment concerns that are as wide-ranging as the many federal and state laws and regulations under which they operate. We advise you on all of them, but focus our efforts in areas that we believe are your greatest cause for concern, including:

Getting Results - A rare employer victory before the NLRBWhen the collective bargaining agreement between our Los Angeles client Good Samaritan Hospital and more than 450 unionized healthcare workers came up for renewal, a group of hospital employees petitioned the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for an election to decertify the union. In a subsequent secret-ballot election, the union held on to its representation […]

Getting Results - Dispute over licensing a cancer therapy productWe filed suit on behalf of our client Cancer Therapeutics Laboratories (CTL), a California-based biopharmaceutical company, against a former joint venture partner in a licensing dispute over Tumor Necrosis Therapy (TNT), an antibody technology that locates and kills cancer cells. The licensing agreement between the two partners stipulated that CTL's research results and products using […]

Getting Results - A complex health care transactionJMBM served as legal counsel for the sale of a neonatal physician group based in Lancaster, California, to Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc. (NYSE: PDX), a leading provider of neonatal, fetal and pediatric subspecialty physician services. Our client joined the 860 doctors and 350 nurse practitioners in 32 states that work with Pediatrix. The sale involved […]